Pat Ambler

Ann Patricia (Pat) Fothergill (née Waddington, formerly Ambler) worked on robotics and robot control languages, notably Freddy II, in the AI department of the University of Edinburgh. She then moved to the University of Aberdeen where she is still an honorary lecturer.[1] Freddy is in the National Museum of Scotland.

She helped develop the robot command language RAPT,[2] and worked with Robin Popplestone[2] and Rod Burstall[3] amongst others.

Whilst at Aberdeen, Pat co-authored the paper "WPFM: the Workspace Prediction and Fast Matching Algorithm"[4] with Jonathan C Aylett and Robert B Fisher. This was later included in John E. W. Mayhew and John P. Frisby's "3D Model Recognition From Stereoscopic Cues"[5]

References

  1. ↑ Fothergill, Pat. "University of Aberdeen profile page". Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  2. 1 2 Ambler, A. P.; R. J. Popplestone; I. Bellos (1978). "RAPT: A language for describing assemblies". The Industrial Robot. 5 (3): 131–137.
  3. ↑ Ambler, A. P.; H. G. Barrow; C. M. Brown; R. M. Burstall; R. J. Popplestone (1975). "A versatile system for computer controlled assembly". Artificial Intelligence. 6 (2): 129–156. doi:10.1016/0004-3702(75)90006-5.
  4. ↑ Fothergill, A. Pat; Jonathan C Aylett; Robert B Fisher (1998). "WPFM: The Workspace Prediction and Fast Matching Algorithm" (PDF). Journal of Intelligence and Robotic Systems. 1: 185–201. Retrieved 21 March 2014.
  5. ↑ Mayhew, J. E. W. (1991). 3D Model Recognition From Stereoscopic Cues. MIT Press. pp. 231–238. ISBN 0-262-13243-5.


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